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Poor search results for simple searches

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 23, 2023
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So... I did a search for one simple word "landfill". Here are the results on page one of Shutterstock search results vs Adobe Stock. Shutterstock returned consistently relevant results, whereas Adobe Stock returned a bunch of random stuff – starting on the first page of results! This has been an annoyance for years and, as illustrated by this particular search word, it's not a matter of narrowing things down with filters. I guess my suggestion is for Adobe to: a) review keywords regularly and/or apply more scrutiny to submissions, and; b) perhaps create something like a hierarchy for keywords, where the content submitter can put primary keywords for the obvious content of the image, then secondary keywords for any tangiential matches. Or something. I don't know. That's Adobe Stock's job to figure out. Not sure how it works now, but it's clearly not very good and competitors are doing a significantly better job. It's frustrating that this consistently makes my projects take much longer than necessary.

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Abambo

Community Expert

@ernie@neotech ,

Upvote the bug report.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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ernie@neotech

New Participant

I don't have anything helpful to add, but I want to reinforce how bad the search engine is. Horrible.

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joon.Stock

Community Manager

Noticed the difference when tried the same search in different region, I passed along the difference to product owner.

Best regards,

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Peter GreccoAuthor

Known Participant

Another day, another poor search result. This time, I clicked "Vectors" and searched "waterfall". Five of the top 20 images were relevant. And it got worse from there. And I agree with @Abambo , it could be more of a bug than a feature request. When I initially posted, I was thinking that a whole new approach to the search engine would be welcome, but I guess it should be seen as a bug because the current system at least needs fixing, if not replacing. Either way, it's a slog to find relevant images. Clearly, it's pulling out the word "fall" from "waterfall" in this case. But why the Chinese dragon? Who knows.

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markbarnard

New Participant

Any update on this from the product owner? My experience mirrors Peter's: search results of late are generally wide of the mark. The first few results are often irrelevant and things get worse from there. I'm increasingly having to search in Bing or similar, then drop an image in to Adobe Stock to do a visual search.

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joon.Stock

Community Manager

Understood the issue, I will pass this symptom to product owner to review.

Best regards,

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Peter GreccoAuthor

Known Participant

You may be able to see from my screenshot that I had "vectors" selected, but that's pretty much it. And yes, you're gong to get some relevant results, otherwise, it would be completely unusable. But you don't have to scroll far to find very non-relevant results. Stark contrast to Shutterstock results. This was just one example search word. I find this to be a persistent problem.

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joon.Stock

Community Manager

I did search with "landfill" for vectors in Stock, I get the following. And I see the following, are there any other filters applied?